11 Aug
2003
11 Aug
'03
1:44 p.m.
One sequence is: aspirate, spirate, pirate, irate, rate, ate, Te, e A different sequence, which ends prematurely: chorizont (one who ascribes the Iliad and the Odyssey to different authors) C-horizon (a particular layer of soil) chorizo (a kind of spicy sausage) backsplash (the rear of a kitchen counter), backslash (\), backlash Many more items of wordplay can be seen at http://puzzlers.org/guide/ For square numbers, the one admitting the most number deletion down to a single digit is 134689 13689 1369 169 16 1 --Ed Pegg Jr, www.mathpuzzle.com